California Coalition for Rural Housing

California Coalition for Rural Housing: CCRH is one of the oldest state low-income housing coalitions in the country. Through advocacy, organizing, research, and technical assistance, our goal is to make the case for rural housing improvement and strengthen the capacity of the nonprofit and public sectors to provide affordable housing and related facilities. Members are primarily community-based nonprofit and public developers, including the largest self-help housing producers in the United States, as well as local government officials, and local activists concerned about rural quality of life.

City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes

This non-profit society promotes urban food production and environmental conservation from a small office in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It also sponsors a demonstration food garden in the Vancouver residential neighborhood Kitsilano.

The Cohouse Network

The Cohousing Network (TCN) is an organization whose purpose is to promote and encourage the cohousing concept. It also supports both individuals and groups in the creation of communities, and provides assistance to completed groups to improve their systems for living together.

The Council for Community Economic Research (ACCRA)

DataPlace

DataPlace provides easy access to data at geographic scales ranging from the neighborhood to the nation. The site currently contains data from the 1990 and 2000 Censuses (demographic, economic, housing, and social characteristics), Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (home mortgage applications and loans), Section 8 Expiring Use database (neighborhood- and property-level data on federally assisted housing at risk of loss), and Consolidated Plan special tabulations (data on housing needs by household income level). DataPlace's data library will expand in the coming months to include information on topics such as business establishments from the Census Bureau's ZIP Business Patterns database and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit developments from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Great Valley Center (GVC)

The GVC is a private, non-profit, and non-partisan organization working to make the Great Central Valley a better place to live by creating modern, livable communities, sustaining agriculture production, preserving natural resources and fostering competition in the global economy.

HUD Home and Communities

HUD USER

HUD USER is the primary source for Federal Government reports and information on housing policy and programs, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and other housing-related topics.

Infill

This site is a tool for pinpointing potential 'infill' sites throughout the state of California. Such parcels are located in areas that have already been urbanized, but the sites are either completely vacant or have structures assessed at extremely low valuations, relative to the land itself. See the Help-FAQ page of this site for an explanation of how non-vacant parcels were selected. Infill parcels may provide additional development opportunities.

Marshall Heights Community Development Organization (MHCDO)

MHCDO's goal is to promote and expand economic opportunities for citizens of the Marshall Heights neighborhood in Washington D.C., to link its residents with opportunities within the city and region, and to attract human and financial resources to the Marshall Heights community.

National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO)

National Housing Institute

The National Housing Institute is a 24-year old independent non-profit organization that examines the issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America. NHI examines key issues affecting affordable housing and community development.

Neighborhood Knowledge for all of California (NKCA)

NKCA intends to serve as statewide, interactive website that assembles and maps a variety of databases that can be used in neighborhood research. Its aim is to promote greater equity in housing and banking policy by providing a set of web-based tools for documenting and analyzing trends. In addition, it functions as a geographic repository for users to map their own communities by uploading their own datasets. NKCA will seek to address this divide by assembling a broad range of indicators on a statewide scale to highlight trends in public and private investment and the community-level impacts associated with these trends, visually mapping indicators in areas such as mortgage lending, population, and housing.

Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA)

NKLA provides access to data and other community development resources in the Los Angeles area. The organization finds records of properties with building code violations, unpaid taxes, and other issues/violations.

Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations (PACDC)

PACDC is dedicated to the advocacy, policy development and technical assistance for community development corporations (CDCs) and other organizations in the greater Philadelphia area in their efforts to rebuild communities and revitalize neighborhoods.